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Surah an-Nahl (The Bee ) 16 : 43

وَمَآ أَرْسَلْنَا مِن قَبْلِكَ إِلَّا رِجَالًا نُّوحِىٓ إِلَيْهِمْ ۚ فَسْـَٔلُوٓا۟ أَهْلَ ٱلذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ

Translations

 
 Muhsin Khan
 Pickthall
 Yusuf Ali
Quran Project
And We sent not before you except men to whom We revealed [Our message]. So ask the people of the message [i.e., former scriptures] if you do not know.

Qur'an Dictionary

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Word Arabic word
(16:43:1)
(16:43:2)
arsalnā
We sent
(16:43:3)
(16:43:4)
qablika
before you
(16:43:5)
illā
except
(16:43:6)
rijālan
men
(16:43:7)
nūḥī
We revealed
(16:43:8)
ilayhim
to them
(16:43:9)
fasalū
so ask
(16:43:10)
ahla
(the) people
(16:43:11)
l-dhik'ri
(of) the Reminder
(16:43:12)
(16:43:13)
kuntum
you
(16:43:14)
(16:43:15)
taʿlamūna
know

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Explanatory Note

The messengers We sent before you were but men whom We inspired. So, if you have not realized this, ask those who are endowed with knowledge. [We sent such messengers] with clear proofs and divine books, and We have now bestowed on you the reminder so that you may elucidate to mankind all that has been bestowed on them, and that they may take thought. (Verses 43-44) Those messengers We sent in former times were men too. We did not send angels or any other type of creation. They were men chosen for a task: “whom We inspired,” just like We inspire you. Their task, like yours, was simply to deliver their message. “So... ask those who are endowed with knowledge”, i.e. the people and nations to whom messengers were sent in earlier times. Ask them, “if you have not realized this [fact]”, to make sure whether those messengers were men or angels or belonged to some other type of creation.

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6. Frequency of the word

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7. Period of Revelation

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The following internal evidence shows that this Surah was revealed during the last Makkan stage of Prophethood:

1.         V. 41 clearly shows that persecution had forced some Muslims to emigrate to Abyssinia before the revelation of this Surah.

2.         It is evident from v. 106 that at that time the persecution of the Muslims was at its height and a problem had arisen where Muslims under persecution were being forced to utter words of blasphemy.

3.         V. 112-114 clearly refer to the end of a seven year famine that had struck Makkah some years after the beginning of Prophethood.

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